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French were still at Ancona; Don Carlos was fighting in 1835-6.
Spain; Don Miguel wag preparing for a new conflict in Zr, 31.2
Portugy) ; Turkey and Egypt were at daggers drawn;
Switzerland was quarrelling about Italian refugees ; Frank.
fort wag occupied by Prussian troops in violation of the
treaty of Vienna; Algiers was being made & French colony,
in violation of French promises made in 1829; ten thousand
Polis nobles were still proscribed and wandering all over
Europe ; French gaols were full of political offenders. This
Pretty list of wrongs it was taken for granted that an
English ministry and English armies should make it their
first business to set right. As Cobden said, if such ideas
Prevailed, the Whig government would leave Providence
Dothing to attend to. Yet this was only the reductio ad
absurdum of that excitability about foreign affairs which the
long war had left behind. The vulgar kind of patriotic
Sentiment leads its professors to exult in military interventions
 even so indescribably foolish as this. What Cobden
Sought was to nourish that nobler and more substantial kind
of patriotism, which takes a pride in the virtue and enlightenent
 of our own citizens, in the wisdom and success of our
institutions, in the beneficence of our dealings with less
advanced possessions, and in the lofty justice and indevendence
 of our attitude to other nations.
No one claims for Cobden that he was the first statesman
who had dreamed the dream and seen the vision of a great
pacification, Everybody has heard of the Grand Design
of Henry the Fourth of France, with its final adjustment
of European alliances, and its august Senate of the Christian
Republic. In the eighteenth century, so rich as it was in
great humane ideas, we are not surprised to find more than
one thinker and more than one statesman enamoured of
the policy of peaceful industry, from the Abbé de Saint
Pierre, who denounced Lewis XIV. for seeking agpgrandize-